Round Up

Colds have come and gone in our house. We're all doing good right now-thankfully-and praying it stays that way too! Caden had a chest cold two weeks ago. I could see him stirring on the monitor at the end of his nap, but never heard him anymore, and when I went to check on him and found him asleep laying at the door/gate. Little man was out cold, and woke up maybe five minutes later a bit confused...

 

 

With the cold came odd eating for him. He always gets a bit thrown off being sick, so once he started feeling better and got an appetite back I found myself caving to a morning breakfast of eggs, hot dog and one of my pancakes with a little bonus of some chocolate chips on top!  Lucky him...and gross all at the same time.

 

I was able to catch up and face time with my brother for the first time in a while. A thirteen hour difference in time doesn't help, but I guess we've both just been busy enough we haven't gotten the chance to touch base recently. It was really good to have time to just sit and talk about anything, everything, or nothing important at all. Just catch up on life and 'hang out'. Now-my little nephew is the cutest thing ever, but he always gives me his serious look when we face time so finally when he busted out that smile and those adorable dimples I snapped a picture as soon as I can. I may look like a goof, but look at that little boys smile. Ah-I just love him. Melts my heart.

 

 

Caden gets super excited to see Uncle Jake on face time too. It's really cute. The two have never met, but he always loves being able to see him and that makes me so happy and so grateful that we are able to have that connection where we can all know each other even from afar. I can't imagine how many happy tears will be shed once we all get to meet up again...but until then, I am so thankful for smart people who make smart phones that can do things like face time.

 

Caden is still helpy-mc-helperson. He just loves to help. I'm assuming it'll get harder once we add baby and more than one kid is in the mix, but currently we've been doing really well at being able to slow down our pace or idea of how things should be done so that he can help. It's cute and he's learning so we hate to say no. 

This past weekend was just amazing. I can't and won't undersell it. Gary and I planned a date night, and a sleepover for Caden, for Friday night. One last date night pre-baby. We had yummy Olive Garden and pulled out our nerd cards buying the The Hobbit Lego game and had a little gaming night. We've played multiple lego video games, but not for a long time--always fun to do. In Gary's eyes I just run around breaking things collecting coins, but let me tell you-the reality is I dominate the lego worlds and he collects the coins. Yep. Sounds about right.

We had one of our nephews birthday parties the next morning so we met Caden and the family at my sisters for that. He was on cloud nine having all that time with them and then with cousins. When we left we sung by Target to get a few things that we needed, and I took advantage of the Cartwheel app I recently added and got a cool Mickey Mouse workbench for half off. Woohoo! We also got the hand me down playdoh set I had as a child from my mom, so between the new Mickey toy and playdoh we kept ourselves busy! I even showed off my playdoh skills by making multiple animals per Caden's request. See below the best playdoh elephant you've ever laid your eyes on...

We've been doing 'picnics' more at our house. He loves the idea of it and we usually keep pretty busy otherwise, so sometimes it's nice to just stop, eat in a different way (well, the part of sitting on the floor at this point in the pregnancy it's the most fun...), and watch a little Mickey. I foresee a lot of picnics in our future.

 

It was one of those 'no nap' days for us. Maybe it was the excitement of new toys, or just becuase, but Caden didn't take a nap. He wasn't being bad either-he was just as enjoyable and silly, so it wasn't necessarily a tortuross 'no nap' day. But, around 5:00 p.m. he started to crash. He got whiny, cuddly, and just started yawning all over the place and laying around here and there. He came up for some snuggles, layed on me, and was out within maybe five minutes. I think I could've laid there getting those cuddles forever. Toddler snuggles are far and few between sometimes and it was just the best.

He was out cold. We decided to put him to bed, despite it being only 5:30, and pray he just caught up on lost sleep and it didn't mean a long, hard day for Sunday. He ended up waking up about an hour later pretty confused, but once he settled we got some dinner in him, did our bedtime routine and back to sleep he went! Pretty dang cute!

Sunday my oldest nephew, Wesley, got baptised so we all attended the first service at church. It was sweet and emotional. I could also cry at almost any moment right now it seems, but I haven't-thank you very much, but add your little nephew who isn't so little anymore making a big, important decision-tear.jerker. He stated that he wanted God to be the boss of his life. Amen to that. There is something so special about having childlike faith--refreshing and much needed for adults to see and be reminded of sometimes.

After church we headed over to the fire station where one of Gary's buddies works. His wife is doing a 30 before 30 for his 30th birthday, and on days he's at the station she has arrange either people to visit or some sort of gift/card/something. So, we signed up for last Sunday and Caden just loved it. He loved seeing all the fire trucks, getting to climb in and all around them and 'driving it'. He just loved it! We visited there for a bit, grabbed lunch after and then went home and had a fun afternoon/evening-this time naps included!

It was one for the books, for sure. We got to see family and friends, but had a good amount of time just us as well. It's kind of how the majority of our weekends look from here until baby. We have a few things happening, especially with the holidays coming up, but overall we're going to get some good time in just as a family of three before we welcome our newest addition! Something I can't wait for--but also trying to cherish this time, it's definitely not something I want to wish away!